619 - The great
fire in the city. "The city was in imminent danger of complete
destruction, when Archbishop Mellitus, a great sufferer from the gout,
caused himself to be carried to the raging flames which had just then
laid hold of the church of the Four Martyrs. 'The sick man averted the
danger by prayer, which a number of strong men had not been able to
perform by much labour. Immediately the wind which, blowing from the
south, had spread the conflagration throughout the city, turning to
the north prevented the destruction of those places that had lain in
its way, and then ceasing entirely, the flames were immeditaely extinguished."
J.Charles
Cox, Canterbury A history of the Ancient City, 1905

1272- In king Edward I's reign, anno 1272,
there happened at Canterbury a great storm of thunder and lightning,
and a sudden inundation; the waters breaking forth seemingly from the
caverns of the earth, overflowed the greatest part of the city where
they were never before known to come, insomuch that the violence of
the current by its impetuosity overturned and laid level many houses
and buildings in it, and drowned many man, women and children. Hasteds

1299 - Also in
king Edward I's reign, anno 1299, there was an earthquake, which, though
not very violent here, was felt as far as Hampton in Middlesex Hasteds

1361 - there
was so great a tempest of wind here, that the trees were overturned,
and the roofs and steeples thrown down, and so vast was the fury of
it, that it seemed as if the whole frame of the universe was involved
in ruin. Hasteds

1382 - On May
21st in 1382 at mid-day, there was an earthquake throughout all England.
Thorn tells us, it terribly shook and shattered the eastern window of
the chapter house, and the western window of the church, as well as
other edifices of note, both within the monastery of St. Augustine,
and without. Hasteds

1544- It appears
by the parish registers, that the plague raged in the city in the years
1544, 1564 and in 1635 again with great violence, from the beginning
of August to the end of October. Hasteds

1564- It appears
by the parish registers, that the plague raged in the city in the years
1544, 1564 and in 1635 again with great violence, from the beginning
of August to the end of October.

1593 - Thomas
Long being then mayor, a great plague raged in this city; and it appears
by the parish registers, that the plague raged in it in the years 1544,
1564 and in 1635 again with great violence, from the beginning of August
to the end of October. Hasteds

1625 - On June
12, 1625, king Charles I with his queen Henrietta Maria of France, came
to Canterbury to his palace of St. Augustine's monastery, and there
consummated his marriage with her. Hasteds

1635 - It appears
by the parish registers, that the plague raged in the city in the years
1544, 1564 and in 1635 again with great violence, from the beginning
of August to the end of October. Hasteds

1642- Protestation Returns

1648- Christmas Day there were great tumults
raised in this city by the means of Michael Page, the puritanical mayor,
who encouraged the people to insult and molest those who were going
to observe the festival at church, which were with much difficulty appeased
by Sir William Man, alderman Sabine, and Mr. Lovelace, a lawyer; but
upon this the committee of the county sent forces in form to attack
the city; who, though they heard by the way that all was quiet, chose
to march in as conquerors, and finding the gates open, took them down
and burnt them, threw down several parts of the wall, and committed
many to prison upon suspicion, among whom were the three peace-makers.
Hasteds

1816 In Kent,
not only the wages of labourers of husbandry, but also in all mechanical
trades such as blacksmiths, masons, wheelwrights, &c. have been
reduced one fifth. NMM1816

1823 Kent - Considerable
emigration from this county has lately taken place to New York, principally
by agricultural labourers.
MM1823